How to Use conscription in a Sentence

conscription

noun
  • Those were all wars in which young men were subject to conscription.
    — Jeff Rice, Twin Cities, 24 June 2019
  • Men are liable to conscription, and tens of thousands of them have been killed.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
  • And through conscription, democracies forced their young to serve, fight and die in their armed forces.
    — Margaret MacMillan, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • In late spring a law was passed to lower the conscription age and tightening draft rules.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Evading conscription is punishable by three to five years in prison and a fine.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Preparing for the worst, or the return of the past, doesn’t end with conscription.
    — Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The Russians won’t be told the whole truth about this conscription and about the fate of the conscripts.
    — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Farm employees are exempt from conscription, but many have joined out of a sense of duty.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • One of the reasons to close the borders in wartime is to keep conscription-age men inside the country.
    — Howard Amos, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
  • But now people with children of conscription age are going to feel worried.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Olga had checked with the conscription office; Anatoliy was not on the rolls.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Hundreds of thousands of its citizens have fled abroad to avoid conscription.
    — Matthew Chance, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
  • They can’t be moved or left behind and her husband, who is of conscription age, is not allowed to leave Ukraine.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Adding women to the conscription pool was deemed impossible for decades.
    — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • The bill does not provide for mandatory conscription.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Some are fleeing while gay men of conscription age are restricted from leaving the country.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2022
  • South Korean males can delay their conscription for a certain amount of time.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 9 Sep. 2019
  • He was jailed for three months for refusing conscription into the Ustaša army.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
  • While some Russian men were fleeing the prospect of conscription, others seemed resigned to their fate.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Young men desperately trying to avoid conscription rushed to the border or to board planes to get out of the country.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Finland kept conscription, for males, long after others abandoned it.
    — Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Hundreds of thousands of men have left Russia to avoid conscription or have been killed or wounded in action.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
  • At the time, the hordes of men who fled Russia to avoid conscription attracted the most attention.
    — Milana Mazaeva, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • All Italian males of fighting age were subject to conscription in the German army.
    — Catherine Bailey, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • As the war in Vietnam wound down, conscription ended in 1973.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2019
  • For more than six years, the state had been asking the Supreme Court for more time to pass a new conscription law to resolve the issue.
    — Maayan Lubell, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • Or was it made for them, by circumstance, by duty, by the illusions of glory, not to mention the blunt force of conscription?
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Amid rising repression, fear of martial law, and the specter of conscription, people are fleeing in their tens of thousands.
    — Howard Amos, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2022
  • South Korea has compulsory conscription, and almost all healthy men are required to serve time in the army.
    — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The current age range for military conscription is set between 25 and 60 years.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024

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